I just saw Joy Ride on cable, and I heard there were several alternate endings, which they did not show. I’ve looked online but I still can’t find a description of these alternate endings. I don’t have DVD yet, so I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to fill me in them, and whether you liked them better than the chosen ending.
Much obliged,
Rubystreak
As I recall, the DVD featured 3 alternate endings.
One was a completely different storyline for the last half hour of the film, starting with the part where the villian makes the lead duo go into the diner naked. There was a truck chase, and the police got involved, and the film ended in the cornfield with the heros blowing up the truck. (This original ending was re-edited and some parts re-shot and used as a scene earlier in the finished film where the truck is chasing the teens through the cornfield).
The other 2 were just minor alterations to the finished film’s ending. One featured Leelee Sobriski killing the villian.
I’d say the ending they wound up going with was the best, though there was a nice moment in that original ending where they find Leelee’s college roommate strung up and bloodied, and think she’s dead…and then she starts screaming.